Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch logs not rfc(2)822 compatible

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:02:47PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> "Debian control files are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike
> rfc822"

I think that's the right approach for arch as well -- just make the
documentation correct.

"Arch patch logs use an RFC822-style[*] header syntax:
   <definition>"

If you want to use an existing RFC822 parser to parse them, your parser
should be flexible enough to handle the difference.

[Note that for the Date: field, I personally think the current situation
 (with two headers) is sort of silly, and would have preferred _just_ the
 Standard-Date: header -- called "Date:" -- with a time-zone indicator.  But
 it's too late without lots of backward-compatibility hacks.  If you're
 writing a parser, then you've got to deal with the existing situation, no
 matter what changes in the future.]

-Miles
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